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...elevator doors opened into a cavernous room in an underground tunnel outside Geneva. Out came the eminent British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, in a wheelchair as always. He was there to behold a wondrous sight. Before him loomed a giant device called a particle detector, a component of an incredible machine whose job is to accelerate tiny fragments of matter to nearly the speed of light, then smash them together with a fury far greater than any natural collision on earth...
...sampled rum. On the other side of Managua, it was well past midnight before Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was finally convinced of her upset victory. As the news sank in, Chamorro's perpetually smiling face clouded with worry. Would the Sandinistas accept the people's verdict? Rising from her wheelchair and perching carefully to favor her right knee, broken in a fall in January, Chamorro gestured for silence among the 100 people gathered in her spacious living room. Then she began reciting the Hail Mary. "God bless Nicaragua," she concluded, her voice choked with emotion...
When Donald arrived for his first group-therapy session at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, he was in a wheelchair, suffering from malignant melanoma and severely depressed. But after he spent six months sharing stories and good times with other cancer patients and learning relaxation techniques, his mood had improved considerably -- and so had his condition. As his attitude brightened, an important change took place inside his body: an increase in the activity of his "natural killer cells," a crucial link in the immune system. By year's end, though he still had cancer, Donald was able to dance...
Chamorro will have no honeymoon with the sizable Sandinista minority that considers her a class enemy, and she has little in common with the poor. Last January, when she broke her knee in a fall at home, she jetted to Houston for surgery. She returned home in a wheelchair that cost more than most of her countrymen earn in a year...
...assassinated in January 1978. Her casual pace suggests disorganization rather than confidence. Until last month, Chamorro restricted her forays outside Managua to weekends, supposedly for lack of funds. Her unfamiliarity with the details of issues, like Nicaragua's hyperinflation, has spawned unflattering comparisons with Ronald Reagan. Enthroned in a wheelchair because of knee surgery, Chamorro becomes testy when asked if she feels Ortega is outhustling...